HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:45:23 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:45:23 GMT etag: "f91e795817860390a5018c7c60c31d05" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=317.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:45:23 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:45:23 GMT etag: W/"f91e795817860390a5018c7c60c31d05" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 4.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=349.0 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com Speculations and Hand-Wavy Ideas Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/on-trying-not-to-be-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-24342 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:37:17 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=2676#comment-24342 So here we are in 2020, and I’m seeing a lot of people (including me for quite a while) saying that the real world seems like fiction. I thought it was fun for a while, and then it got somewhat boring, but maybe there’s an actual and possibly serious problem if the real world doesn’t seem real.

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-22445 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:50:37 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-22445 I love your blog(s). Any possibility of putting up a Table of Contents in the future? 🙂

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/do-rationalists-exist/comment-page-1/#comment-22428 Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:33:01 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=796#comment-22428 […] I might have done some actual reading, instead of just grabbing a term I liked the sound of from one of Sarah Constantin’s blog posts and running with it. So I wanted to understand how the term as we’ve been applying it differs […]

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/the-costs-of-reliability/comment-page-1/#comment-22334 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 06:53:55 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=9324#comment-22334 In regards to your last comment about toys. I think that one such example is computer games were we can look for innovations within computer science.

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/the-tale-of-alice-almost-strategies-for-dealing-with-pretty-good-people/comment-page-1/#comment-22328 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:06:32 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=9299#comment-22328 To what extent does the person wanting to increase V need to be a good exemplar of V?

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/permissions-in-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-22327 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:56:44 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=9326#comment-22327 William Gore (of Gore Enterprises) talked about giving employees a lot of freedom for everything but waterline decisions– those were decisions which imposed a risk on the company.

He didn’t go into detail, but here’s an article about the sort of judgement calls involved.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/waterline-management-concept-ryan-titmas/

https://www.gore.com/about/our-beliefs-and-principles

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/comment-page-1/#comment-22289 Sat, 07 Sep 2019 02:23:17 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=2652#comment-22289 […] By Sarah Constantin (blog – 1, 2) […]

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/permissions-in-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-21686 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:34:41 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=9326#comment-21686 This is a great post. Like a lot of your other (also great) posts, I particularly like it because it maps out a space of options and outlines significant tradeoffs among different points in that space. I think that’s a really useful perspective from which to analyze, e.g. organizations or political theories.

Something I thought of when reading about what you term ‘do-ocracy’ is the various depictions of ‘good guys’ in different ‘political’ writing – in particular I was thinking about examples from Cory Doctorow’s books. In the books of his I’ve read, he paints authoritarian and bureaucratic organizations as corrupt due to regulatory capture and the plucky do-ocracies of the good guys as plucky, ‘bottom-up’ do-gooders. Obviously there are tradeoffs – and different ones! – between those two modes, and, after reading this post, I feel like I’ve got a better understanding of why I’ve always felt like those depictions were, at best, _incomplete_ (even tho I’m very sympathetic to the author’s points).

These ideas are also really relevant to things like open source ‘communities’. Small projects should probably default to a do-ocracy, to maximize early contributions and increase the likelihood of something being developed _at all_. But, as more and more people start to use and rely upon any one project, it probably makes more and more sense to shift to more ‘asking permission’ to discourage disruptive changes.

]]> https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/comment-page-1/#comment-21685 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:54:06 +0000 https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/?p=2652#comment-21685 […] especially Get Out the Vote (GOTV)…Okay, fine, a small quote, because this very specific type of Ra-driven (archive) driven institutional rot is exactly my jam:“If they don’t trust their own caucus […]

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